After looking around at them with anger and sorrow at the hardness of their hearts, He told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

“Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow.

The sower sows the word.

So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow —to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”

Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I don’t know this man you’re talking about!”

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a reed, offered Him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take Him down!”